Corn-popper



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Corn Popper. v No. 59,253. Patented Oct. 3051666.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM W. S. OBBETON, OF HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORN-POPPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,253, dated October 30, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. S. ORBE- TON, of Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Apparatus or Implement to be used for Popping Corn, Roasting Coffee, or other articles of like character; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, makin g a part thereof.

Of such drawings, Figure 1 exhibits a top view of my said invention or apparatus, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal central and vertical section thereof.

In the said drawings, A denotes a shallow cylindrical-shaped basket or receptacle, whose sides and bottom are made of woven wire,the top part of such receptacle being provided with a meniscus shaped cover, made of a plate of tin or other suitable material, and connected to the body portion by rivets or in any convenient manner. The said cover is formed in two portions, a b, hinged together, as shown at c in Fig. 1, the part a being capable of bein g turned over upon the part 1), whenever it may be desirable, either for charging the receptacle with corn or discharging it therefrom. The said basket A is suspended within a curved metallic arm or lever, B, by means of a pin, 0, which extends perpendicularly through the arm and axially into or through the basket.

The said curved arm may extend either partially or wholly around the basket, and be connected with the handle H by means of rivets, or in any other suitable manner, it being understood that the pin 0 is to have a firm bearing or support by or within the arm B.

The said receptacle or basket is intended to have partial reciprocating rotary motion around. the pin 0. These movements are effected by means of the following mechanism that is to say, the basket is rotated in one direction by means of the rod R, which has one of its ends connected with the top of the basket, at D, as seen in Fig. 1, and extends from thence backward along the side of the handle H, and through guides or eyes 0 0, and terminates in a finger-loop,-L. By grasping the handle with one hand and passing the indexfinger thereof through the'said loop, and next drawing such finger back a short distance, ro tary motion in one direction to the desired ex tent will be imparted to the said basket. For pro ducin g a rotary motion in the opposite direction, I dispose around the said pin 0 a helical spring, S, one end of which is attached to the pin, and the other end to the under side of the cover or to the side of the basket, as shown in Fig. 2. This spring so arranged, it will be evident, will cause a reverse motion of the basket to take placethat is to say, after the rod R has been drawn forward to its extreme limit, if the finger be released from or ceases to act in the loop, the retractile force of such spring will produce a rapid rotative movement of the basket in a direction opposite to that which was given it by the rod R. In order to prevent such spring from causing the basket to revolve too far, or through an arc of a circle greater than that it was moved by the action of the rod R, I arrange on the top or other suitable part of the cover a stopper or check, P, which, when the basket has moved the distance required, will strike against the arm B and thus suddenlyarrest its motion. This sudden stoppage of the basket serves also to give additional movement to the corn or material within the basket.

I would remark that, if desirable, .there may also be a stopper'or check applied to the cover to limit the extent of movement produced by the rod R.

My invention, as above set forth, possesses several important advantages over all others heretofore used for the same purpose.

First. It is more easily operated.

Second. By its peculiar rotary motions, while it gives sufficient movement to the contents of the basket, it maintains the unparched corn in immediate contact with the heat to much better advantage than when the basket and its contents are shaken and moved rectilinearly.

Third. It does not require the cover to have In combination with the basket A and its handle and supporting device or devices, a

mechanism or means whereby a reciprocating rotary or partially-reciprocating rotary motion may be imparted to the said basket, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WM. VY. S. ORBETON. Witnesses EDMUND KIMBALL, N. SPOFFORD. 

